========================================= **** Deadline extension: December 20, 2006 **** Fourth International Workshop on Practical Aspects of High-level Parallel Programming (PAPP 2007) part of The International Conference on Computational Science May 27-30, 2007, University of Beijing, China http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/conf/papp2007.html ========================================= Aims and scope Computational Science applications are more and more complex to develop and require more and more computing power. Parallel and grid computing are solutions to the increasing need for computing power. High level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications. Algorithmic skeletons, parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications. The PAPP workshop focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming: design, implementation and optimization of high-level programming languages and tools (performance predictors working on high-level parallel/grid source code, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hotspot detectors, high-level GRID resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc.), applications in all fields of computational science, benchmarks and experiments. Research on high-level grid programming is particularly relevant. The PAPP workshop is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel and grid computing and computational science researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools. Topics We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including: * high-level models (CGM, BSP, MPM, LogP, etc.) and tools for parallel and grid computing * high-level parallel language design, implementation and optimisation * functional, logic, constraint programming for parallel, distributed and grid computing systems * algorithmic skeletons, patterns and high-level parallel libraries * generative (e.g. template-based) programming with algorithmic skeletons, patterns and high-level parallel libraries * applications in all fields of high-performance computing (using high-level tools) * benchmarks and experiments using such languages and tools Paper submission and publication Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers in English presenting original research. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will go through a rigorous reviewing process. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three referees. The accepted papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, as part of the ICCS proceedings. Submission must be done through the ICCS website: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2007/papers/upload.php. We invite you to submit a full paper of 8 pages formatted according to the rules of LNCS, describing new and original results, no later than December 20, 2006. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. An early email to papp2007 at free.fr with your intention to submit a paper would be greatly appreciated (especially if you have doubts about the relevance of your paper). Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. Authors will be invited to submit extended and revised versions of their papers. Accepted manuscripts will be published in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience. Important Dates * December 20, 2006 - Full paper due * February 3, 2007 - Notification * February 19, 2007 - Camera-ready paper due * July 2007 - Journal version due * September 2007 - Referee reports * October 2007 - Revision of papers, final notification * November 2007 - Final paper due Programme committee * Marco Aldinucci (Univ. of Pisa, Italy) * Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France) * Armelle Bonenfant (Univ. of St Andrews, UK) * Frédéric Gava (Univ. Paris XII Val de Marne, France) * Alexandros Gerbessiotis (NJIT, USA) * Clemens Grelck (Univ. of Luebeck, Germany) * Zhenjiang Hu (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) * Rita Loogen (Univ. of Marburg, Germany) * Frédéric Loulergue (Univ. Orléans, France) * Susanna Pelagatti (Univ. of Pisa, Italy) * Casiano Rodriguez Leon (Univ. La Laguna, Spain) Organizers * Dr. Anne BENOIT Laboratoire d'Informatique du Parallelisme Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 46 Allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 - France * Pr. Frederic LOULERGUE Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans Université d'Orléans Batiment IIIA - Rue Léonard de Vinci - BP6759 45067 Orléans Cedex 2 - France